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Originally Posted by Street Pharmacist
It's unclear if he could pardon himself. There's certainly no precedent, but a pardon by definition is from a sovereign to a citizen, so unlikely it would be that simple. At the very least, very risky.
It's moot if impeachment comes as that's political, not judicial (I think most people in this thread have discussed this ad nauseum).
What is interesting though, is that despite the legal quagmire of indicting a sitting president for a crime and trying to prosecute him, that dissapates the second he leaves office.
So you could simply wait until either impeachment or end of term to indict and he'd be hooped
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Nah, president Pence would pardon him with the quickness if he was successfully removed from office.